Tailor & Service Business POS: Job Cards, No Stock, Money That Still Adds Up

A tailor's shop breaks the basic assumption of retail software: there is no stock. What you sell is work — measured, promised for a date, and collected later. The inventory screens are irrelevant, and what you actually need is a job card and a way to know what is owed.

The Tailor / Services preset drops the inventory emphasis and turns on the two things that matter.

What the tailor preset switches on

• Services & Mobile Load — items that carry no stock and never go negative: stitching charges, alterations, fittings.
• Repair jobs — a job card per item: what came in, what is to be done, the ready-by date and the charge.

Credit sales are on, and the till is a grid — a tailor sells a short list of services very often.

Selling something that does not exist

A service item has no stock count, cannot go negative, and does not appear in stock valuation or low-stock warnings. That sounds obvious; the reason it needs saying is that most POS software will happily let a stitching charge go to −47 units and then warn you about it every morning.

You can set a fixed rate per service, or mark it variable price so the till asks for the amount as it goes into the cart — which is what most tailoring actually is. Cancelling the prompt adds nothing, so a job can never be booked at zero by accident.

The job card

Each piece of work is a job: what came in, what is to be done, the ready-by date, and the estimated charge. It moves through received → ready → delivered, and the status is shown as a word, a colour and an icon together — readable in Urdu as well as English, rather than displaying a raw status code.

A list of what is due today, and what is late, is the screen a busy shop actually lives on.

Advances, balances and collection

Tailoring runs on advances. The bill records what was taken up front and what stands outstanding, and the customer's ledger carries the balance until they collect. When they do, the settlement is recorded against the customer, so the account closes properly rather than leaving an orphan.

You can set a credit limit per customer, though most tailors will not need one. Zero means no limit, not "no credit".

The books, without inventory to lean on

A service business has no cost of goods to speak of, so the profit picture is revenue minus expenses — which makes expense recording the whole game. Expenses are categorised, can be attached to the shift they were paid from, and cash paid out of the till is counted properly in the drawer close.

Recurring bills handle the standing costs — rent, electricity, the machine instalment. They are reminders, not auto-postings: the expense is written when a person presses the button, because software that books rent on its own books it for a month the shop was shut. A rule set for the 31st fires on the last day of a short month, and a reminder missed on the 1st is still there on the 3rd.

Staff and wages

If you employ tailors, payroll and attendance are included. Monthly staff are paid in full regardless of attendance by default — the ordinary small-shop rule — and deduction by attendance is an opt-in setting with its own working-days figure, so it never surprises anybody. Approved leave is paid; an unmarked day is not treated as an absence.

Getting started

Setup takes about ten minutes. When you sign up you pick Tailor / Services as your business type, and GOF POS switches on the features above for you — no configuration screens to hunt through, no consultant. If something in the preset does not suit you, every switch is yours to change afterwards in Settings → Business type.

The app runs on Windows, macOS and Linux for the counter, and on Android and iOS for stock checks and quick sales on the move. The desktop till keeps working when the internet does not, and syncs when it comes back.

See pricing or download GOF POS and try it on a real day's trading.